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Elementary Data Breach Questions Remain, My Dear Capita

Data Breach Today

Beyond $25M in Estimated Cleanup Costs, The Game Remains Afoot for Victim Details In the annals of attempting to downplay the impact of a data breach, here's a new one: British outsourcing giant Capita says the hackers who hit it - steling data pertaining to customers, suppliers and employees - accessed "less than 0.1%

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Experts found Symlink race issues in 28 antivirus products

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A malicious user can create a symbolic link to a file not otherwise accessible to them.” An attacker could perform a race condition via a directory junction (Windows) or a symlink (Linux & macOS) in the time between the initial file scan and the cleanup operation. ” states Wikipedia.

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Hackers abused swap files in e-skimming attacks on Magento sites

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The attackers used this tactic to maintain persistence and allowing the malware to survive multiple cleanup attempts. The presence of a swap file suggests that the attackers initially accessed to the compromised wesites via SSH or a terminal session. The script included base64 encoded variables and hex encoded strings. .”

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Zero-Day flaw in FatPipe products actively exploited, FBI warns

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To mitigate the issue the company recommends disabling UI access on all the WAN interfaces or configure Access Lists on the interface page to allow access only from trusted sources. Upon exploiting the flaw, the attackers used cleanup scripts to remove traces of their activity. ” reads the FBI’s alert. .”

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CVE-2019-11815 Remote Code Execution affects Linux Kernel prior to 5.0.8

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There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free, related to net namespace cleanup.” The exploitation of the flaw could allow attackers to access resources, modify any files, and deny access to resources. . “An issue was discovered in rds_tcp_kill_sock in net/rds/ tcp. c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.8.

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Researchers uncovered a new Malware Builder dubbed APOMacroSploit

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In order to avoid detection, the BAT scripts add the malware location in the exclusion path of Windows Defender and disabling Windows cleanup before executing the malware. In at least one attack, the threat actors used a Delphi Crypter along with a second-stage malware, a remote access Trojan dubbed BitRAT.

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The FBI issued a flash alert for Hive ransomware operations

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Government experts state that the group uses multiple mechanisms to compromise networks of the victims, including phishing emails with malicious attachments to gain access and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to move laterally once on the network. The Hive ransomware adds the.hive extension to the filename of encrypted files. key.hive or *.key.*.